Category: Presentations and Talks

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. Keiko Kawamuro from the University of Iowa.

The lecture, titled “Diagrammatic left canonical form of braids and applications,” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, April 28 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

The College of Engineering is hosting Dr. Ben Kroposki, PE, IEEE Fellow and the director of the Power Systems Engineering Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, from 3 to 4 p.m. Thursday, April 27 in 264 John Bardo Center.

Kroposki will present the last talk in the Energy Seminar Series, “Integrating Massive Amounts of Wind and Solar Into Electric Power Systems.” Students, staff, faculty and industry partners are invited to attend the talk.

The College of Applied Studies (CAS) Diversity Committee invites the campus community to its next CAS Faculty of Color Lecture Series event, “Amplifying Voices of AAPI Faculty in CAS,” from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, April 27 via Zoom.

The panelists will be Dr. Sun Young Lee, school of education assistant professor; Dr. Jason Li, ISLE associate professor; and Dr. JaeHwan Byun, school of education assistant professor. The session will be moderated by Dr. Dosun Ko, school of education assistant professor. The event is to celebrate the research and contributions of Asian faculty within CAS and in early celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month.

After registering, participants will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. The event is part of the CAS Diversity Committee Faculty, Staff and Community of Color lecture series. For more information, contact Dr. Valerie Thompson at valerie.thompson@wichita.edu.

Lori Santos, art educator, uses art as a collaborative tool that creates conversations, builds community and enacts positive change, telling stories that inspire connectedness and honor difference. Tatiana Larsen found a visual way to permanently record a movement in time.

Both are faculty at WSU’s School of Art, Design and Creative Industries and artists featured in Transmissions: The XXIV Faculty Biennial, on exhibit until April 22 in the Polk/Wilson Gallery in the Ulrich Museum of Art. Join them at 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 19 at the Ulrich Museum to learn about their inspiration and processes.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Taylor Carr and Kristen Hadipour, data scientists at Emprise Bank.

The lecture, titled “Presenting Data to Stakeholders,” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, April 21 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host Robert Cohen, professor from Colorado State University, at its next colloquium at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 19 in 224 McKinley Hall. Refreshments will be provided.

Cohen will present his talk, “Avidity – Based Sensors for Live-Cell Detection of Signaling by Ubiquitin.”

Join Illumina Biotechnology for two seminars Thursday, April 27 in 203 Rhatigan Student Center. Registration is required to attend.

• 8:30-9:30 a.m. – Anyone is invited to join this one-hour introduction seminar to learn more about the history and current technologies in next-generation sequencing (NGS) and genomics. Andrew Degar, Illumina Sequencing specialist, will be discussing the molecular and mechanical aspects of sequencing, from nucleic acid to analysis.
• 10-11 a.m. – Join a seminar focusing on metagenomics, transcriptomics, metatranscriptomics, infectious disease research and more. Degar will be sharing about Illumina technology, emerging applications and ways you can leverage next-generation sequencing technology to drive research forward.

Degar received his Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences. He was the lead scientist at the Center for Metagenomic and Microbiome Research sequencing core at Baylor College of Medicine. Degar also served as director of operations for a metagenomics based sequencing company prior to joining Illumina.

Campus and community members who missed the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Perspectives on Pedagogy talks can now access them on the Fairmount College YouTube channel.

Videos of each Perspectives series dating to 2020 are also available on the channel. Dr. Andrew Hippisley, Fairmount College dean, hosts each series.

• Supporting and Coaching GTAs in the Classroom 
• Being an Ally in the Classroom
• Active Learning
• Student Perspectives on Teaching and Learning

The SMART Lab Speaker Series presented by the Department of Sport Management delves deeper into the challenges impacting the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. The goal of the series is to come together as a community to identify solutions and/or opportunities on AAPI-related issues through comprehensive discussions.

The next presentation features Marshal Cho, a basketball coach, Jin Park, a PGA golfer, and Yong Chae Rhee, associate professor of Sport Management at Washington State University. RSVP is required, and space is limited. The presentation begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 19 in 155 Corbin Education Center.

The speaker series will offer a forum for discussion of AAPI-related issues so that the community can better understand both the social and psychological issues of AAPI in order to create a more inclusive society.

Join the Department of Physics for its next seminar at 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 19 in 226 Jabara Hall and via Zoom.

The speaker for the seminar is Dmitry Ovchinnikov, assistant professor of physics from the University of Kansas. He will present “Van der Waals topological magnets and circuits.”